Loathsome, Irksome and Just Plain Annoying Titles

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Have you ever look at the title of a song or album and just wanted to kick the artist in the ass with a pneumatically powered steel-toed jackboot?
The two things that irk me are:
1) Pun Titles ("You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish!")
2) Fake Illiteracy (I find using "Da" to mean "The" to be particularly frustrating. Especially when rappers do it. I mean, shit...these people want to be taken seriously as intellegent adults, right? But they'll title an album Da Real World as if they don't notice people reading it are saying Duuuuuh Real World.

― Lord Custos, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1) It's still funny.
2) There's so much more to being "intelligent" than spelling. That seems devastatingly obious to me. It gives me a headache.

― Keiko, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh fuck off, it's written transcription of speech! haven't you ever written 'wanna' instead of 'want to'? what's this shit about 'these people'?

― ethan, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what's this shit about 'these people'?

As distinct from 'those people,' 'you guys' and 'me and my mates down the boozer.'

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pun band names are getting to be a bit old. At first, in '84, Don Knottslanding was funny to me. But now, even the shittiest bands (and they're always bar bands) use the pun-names - like (I can't think of any!) The BuyBulls.

Pop culture references kind of tick me off. I can only think of band names, but I'm sure there are album titles too .. -> "Pretty Sneaky Sis", "Pretty Girls Make Graves" (Not a Smiths Tribute band, if you can believe that), Teeth of the Hydra (not a TRex tribute band), No Tagbacks (A case where a pun would have been preferable: No Taybacks), Pity the Fool, .....

― Dave225, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I would die 4 u" - That "4 u" and "u r" bullshit fucking annoys me. Goddamn, that pisses me off! FUCK!

OK, I'm better now.

― Dave225, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

>> what's this shit about 'these people'?
> Holy shit! I actually did the 'H. Ross Perot' Thing?!
My Bad.
Actually. Its not so much the mis-spellings...it the Da="Duuuuh!" thing itself. I feel like anybody who uses an obvious "Duuuuh!" sound in their album title can't help but sound like a total Motard. And this is something that is a serious problem in the Rap world. Rappers want to be praised for their intellects (okay...and feared, too, but thats another issue) and taken seriously. Ergo, The 'Da' must die.

― Lord Custos, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I would die 4 u" - That "4 u" and "u r" bullshit fucking annoys me. Goddamn, that pisses me off! FUCK!
OK, I'm better now.

Thats the kinda stuff I mean. So Dave...in your opinion, whats more odious? "4 u r 2 b..." stuff or the obnoxious 'Da' thang. (Or is it 'Thang' thats the worst. Sound like a Klingon Janitor to me.)

― Lord Custos, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's close - but the I r 4 u 2 b really gets to me - I think because people seem to think they're being clever. When someone uses "da", at least he's admitting to being ignorant.

― Dave225, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this thread is the most bullshit ever.

― ethan, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How so?

― Lord Custos, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking/writing slang is not being ignorant.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I will be angry if anyone but missy tries to use "ur" for "your".

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I didn't say that. Dave225 did. I just don't like the sound of Duuuh. (Or pun titles.)

― Lord Custos, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Y Tori Kant Read!

I must confess an affinity also for The Jazz Butcher's Fishcoteque

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As usual, The Onion makes the best point about how 'cutting edge' such affectations are by putting them in the mouth of an accountant in their current issue.

― Momus, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Swiss Family Orbison.

― David, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"UR" is clearly better as "You're," where "yr" or "yer" is better for "your."

― Keiko, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Except ur = prince, and yr = sonic youth!

― Sterling Clover, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You're right, I was analyzing that too much.

― Keiko, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I missed the Mercury Rev boat for years as I was so annoyed (pre and post 'getting it') by "Yerself is Steam" (cringe-worthy even today).

― Spencer Chow, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(i only just got that d'oh!!)

(ok the electric light orchestra took slightly longer, like 27 yrs vs 7)

(someone will try to tell me the beatles is a bad pun now also)

― mark s, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This has happened too many times: I'm waiting for some show to start and these two guys behind me start talking too loudly, then I hear something like: "Bossa Nova is better than Surfer Rosa" "No, Surfer Rosa is better." "Bossa Nova, Bossa Nova" "What about Doolittle" "Bossa Nova is better that Doolittle" "No, Surfer Rosa is the best." "Doolittle is better than Surfer Rosa" " have you heard the really rare ep C'mon Pilgrim." "That's not the first album they did, Surfer Rosa is" etc. and Now I hate all the Pixes album titles.

― A Nairn, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since you mention it....

― Sean Carruthers, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

momus i hope you were being sarcastic, herbert kornfield is some lazy, unfunny humor.

― ethan, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

All this time I thought Missy was going on about a city in Mesopotamia.

― Curt, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go on, Ethan! A

― Clarke B., Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go on, Ethan! Accuse him of being a racist!

BTW, generally, only nu-metal ones misspellings really irk me. Limp Bizkit? Staind? Altho I admit Creed would be 10x better if they were Kreed.

― Clarke B., Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shit, fuck all y'all.

― ethan, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know it's totally retarded, but "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" still makes me crack up...

― Andy, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you have a problem with the actual "duhh" sound that's your own issue. You can't fairly associate it with hip hop or blame rappers when the problem is based upon your own connotations. And besides.. who said 'these people' want to be taken seriously as intell(i)gent adults? Is that what all musicians are supposed to do by nature or something?

Ghostface Killah, "Da Real World", Kool Keith, etc.. I don't see what's so irritating about it. I will, however, complain when songs titles begin to use aLtErNaTiNg cApS.

― Honda, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anytime these people want to stop titling albums by taking a familiar title or phrase and changing one word, I won't mind. It might have been fun for about a decade...

Labour of Lust
Beauty and the Beat
From Her to Eternity
Licensed to Ill
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Hello Cruel World
Candy Apple Gray
Look Mom No Head
Twice Upon a Time
Dial M for Motherfucker *chuckle*

But some wits don't know when to give up...

Pleased to Meet Me
All Shook Down

No, really...

Land of Rape and Honey
A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
...the Way to Suck Eggs

And, two decades on, there's no end in sight...

Near Life Experience
Fanfare For the Comic Muse
Music Has the Rights to Children
The Agony of Lafitte

But don't get me wrong, I'm not just dissing to be clever.

― Curt, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beauty and the Beat = a marketing ploy, which I doubt the Go- Gos liked much better than anyone else. Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death = at least the juxtaposition says something Hello Cruel World, even if it's clumsy and something we've all heard enough. Candy Apple Gray = I think this one works, probably because it's not just a linguistic trick but a visual one. Music Has the Right to Children = I also like, although I'm having trouble thinking of why.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Clearly I didn't mean to leave that Hello Cruel World in there, although that one doesn't bother me too much either.

― Nitsuh, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sure, some of those weren't so bad. I sort of liked Whatever's Cool With Me and , too. There are so damn many, and it's such a tired gimmick.

― Curt, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

make that........Whatever's Cool With Me and Who Needs Life, I'm High on Drugs,

― Curt, Monday, 4 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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